The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima

The City at Its Limits Gandolfo Daniella Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press Data wydania: 2009 ISBN: 9780226280981 Liczba stron: 288 Format: Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: In 1996, an older woman in Lima, Peru - part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city s cleaning services - stripped to the waist in full view of the crowd that surrounded her. This title analyzes the ramifications of this act within the city s conflicted history and across its class divisions.